Game board



Patented F ch. 7, 1939 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE GAME BOARD Frank H. Cross, Baltimore, Md.

Application February 9, 1937, Serial No. 124,915

1 Claim.

This invention relates to game boards of a type wherein a plurality of removable sections are assembled to make up the complete board, each of these sections being formed with a plurality of holes in which are contained slips of paper on which are printed names, numbers or other data to be used in playing the game.

An object of the invention is to provide a sectional board the different sections of which can i= be removed and others substituted if, when the gameis played, a tie results which requires additional plays afterthe sections already in play have been exhausted.

A further object is to provide a game board the size of which can be enlarged or reduced, in proportion to the number of players using it.

A further object is to provide removable sections cooperating with baflies of peculiar configurations whereby only sections adapted for use in connection with the particular board, canbe employed.

'With the foregoing and other objects in View which will appear as the description proceeds, the invention consists of certain novel details of construction and combinations of parts hereinafter more fully described and pointed out in the claim, it being understood that changes may be made in the construction and arrangement of parts without departing from the spirit of the invention as claimed.

In the accompanying drawing the preferred form of the invention has been shown.

In said drawing Figure 1 is a plan view of the game board.

Figure 2 is a section on line 2-2, Figure 1, the

bottom plate being shown by broken lines in unlocked position.

Figure 3 is a section on line 3-3, Figure 1. Figure 4 is a section on line 4-4, Figure 1.

Figure 5 is a plan view of one of the sections of the game board, a portion being broken away.

Referring to the figures by characters of reference I designates a top plate having downturned flanges forming sides 2 and an end wall 3. Channeled arms 4 are extended from one end of the plate in which can be inserted a card bearing instructions, advertising matter, or other data. For the purpose of preventing the plate from marring any surface on which it might be mounted, suitable soft pads 5 of any desired construction can be placed on the corner portions as shown.

Plate I is formed with parallel rows of windows or openings 6 preferably rectangular and these correspond with similar windows or openings 1 formed in a bottom plate 8 proportioned to be inserted between the lower edges of the side walls or flanges 2 and against the end wall 3. This will be noted by referring to Figures 2 and 3. End Wall 3 has a narrow lip or ledge extended backwardly therefrom as shown at 9 and this is adapt- .5 ed to be lapped by one end portion of plate 8 so as to support it. The opposite end of the bottom plate 8 has an upturned flange ill formed with an opening II. When this bottom plate is in normal position flange Ill bears against the bot- 10 tom surface of the top plate I as shown by full lines in Figure 2 and when thus located the opening I I can receive the bolt I2 of a lock I3 secured to plate I. Therefore the plate 3, after once being fastened, cannot be removed except by actu- :15 ating the lock so as to withdraw the bolt I2 from opening II.

Secured to the bottom of plate I and extending around the group of openings 6 are baflies I4 which can be in the form of angle strips having 20 flanges extended toward each other as shown at I5. These flanges can be made fiat, as shown or angular, curved or of any other desired configuration.

Substantially filling the space surrounded by 25 the battle strips I4 are parallel rows of game board sections I6 adapted to abut against each other at their edges, the meeting edges being concealed between those portions of the plates I and 8 left between the openings in the plates. This will be 30 apparent by referring to Figures 2 and 3. Grooves I I are provided in the sides and ends of the board sections and are so shaped and proportioned that those game sections located nearest the bafiles I4, can receive the flanges I5 of the baffles as shown. Thus it will be obvious that unless the game board sections have their grooves shaped to fit the baflles, it would be impossible to place all of the game board sections in the space provided for them. 40

Each game board section has a number of small holes formed therein as shown at I8 and the upper and lower surfaces of these game board sections can be covered with paper or the like as shown at I9, this covering material being 45 I provided with groups of dots 20 indicating the location of the holes thereunder. Within each hole is placed a slip of paper bearing a number or other character, or a name or any other data used in playing the game. 50

In practice the game board is inverted so that plate I is lowermost. Plate 8 is unlocked and removed and board sections I6 are placed on the upper surface of the inverted plate I and shifted laterally so as to engage the flanges I5 55 on which the data is displayed.

'winner of the game.

Should the game result in a tie, the plate 8 could be unlocked and removed, one or more additional board sections substituted for a like number of used ones, and the game continued.

Should it be desired to reduce the size of the playing area, some of the board sections could be removed and unperforated sections could be substituted therefor.

It will be noted that after the plate 8 has been fastened in position, it becomes impossible to remove any one of the board sections because each of said sections is longer and wider than the opening through which it is exposed. Furthermore only those sections can be used which are adapted to receive the baflles 15. Obviously by changing the shape of the bafiles and the corresponding grooves of the board sections, the re-building of the game board can be controlled to a certain extent.

What is claimed is:

A game board including a top plate, said plate having downturned flanges forming side walls and an end wall, a bottom plate insertible between the flanges, means for detachably securing the bottom plate against movement relative to the flanges, baffles secured to the top plate and spaced inwardly from the flanges, each of said baiiles including flanges disposed in a plane midway between the plates, a plurality of game board sections each having a groove extending therearound midway between opposed faces of the sections, all of the grooves being proportioned to receive the flanges of the baffles, each game board section having a plurality of openings therein, game elements within the openings,

and sheets secured to opposed faces of the sections and adapted to be perforated, said sheets normally concealing the openings and the game elements therein, certain of the game board sections being in engagement with the flanges of the baffles and additional game board elements being fitted snugly thereagainst and against each other whereby the area defined by the baflles is completely filled with said game board sections, any one of said sections being reversible and replaceable for engagement with the flange FRANK H. CROSS;

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